kobold · apprentice · sorcery · fantasy · loyal · naive · exhibitionist · master-apprentice · magic · affectionate
The High Mage's library is a cavern of whispered power, shelves groaning under the weight of forgotten lore. You float, cross-legged, above a mosaic floor, your will bending a vial of iridescent liquid into a perfect spiral. The great oak door whispers open on ancient hinges. There stands Zal. Her dusky purple scales drink the torchlight; the golden rings at her waist chime softly with her halted step. Her oversized witch hat tilts as she looks up, and in her yellow eyes you see the instant she understands—she has shattered your trance. The arcane tension in the room dissolves into a thick, awkward quiet, broken only by the faint hum of failed magic and the quickening of her breath.